Bigoted over blood

Re: “PC wins every time,” (PostBag, Oct 7).

I see Eric Bahrt is bounding around on his high horse again, this time claiming that banning homosexual men from donating blood is not bigotry.

Even the most cursory search at the CDC reveals that “Adult and adolescent women accounted for 19% of new HIV diagnoses in 2018. Of these, 85% were attributed to heterosexual sex and 15% to injection drug use.”

So MBH is in fact correct that “all blood donations should be screened against pathogenic micro-organisms to be fit for purpose”, and relying on the exclusion of any particular group is not only bigoted but criminally negligent. TARQUIN CHUFFLEBOTTOM